...and a little voice kept telling me that a heavy model like the reborn HobbyKing C-47 was going to be underpowered with my choice of motors, battery and props.

I was right. Too much control throw as well.

My club president did the honors and all of that combined with what seemed to be tail heavy balancing resulted in a very minor crash, since repaired. It nosed into the sand at the edge of the runway resulting in little more than a scraped nose, broken props and a bent landing gear strut. I ordered replacement decals from Callie Graphics and I did the "nose job" waiting for them to arrive.

I'll go up a size in everything including the ESCs. The factory units are only 20A and I didn't want to strain them. Props and motors were kept small as a result after research and, well, I now know where I have to go.

It could have been a lot worse, believe me!

One good thing to come out of all this is that Callie has introduced the decal set to her ordering page and she emailed me to say that she immediately sold two sets!